26-year-old Rowan Atkinson talks about his transition from his electrical engineering studies to focusing on his comedy & acting while at Oxford University, 1981. pic.twitter.com/IVAMBpd17d
— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) April 4, 2026
26-year-old Rowan Atkinson talks about his transition from his electrical engineering studies to focusing on his comedy & acting while at Oxford University, 1981. pic.twitter.com/IVAMBpd17d
— Time Capsule Tales (@timecaptales) April 4, 2026
Roger Scruton, the ancestor duty pic.twitter.com/935dx35cLC
— Atlas Press (@realAtlasPress) April 4, 2026
Imagine winning this hard. Impossible https://t.co/FXVADv3JFD pic.twitter.com/uuygcxHiam
— Aaron Francis (@aarondfrancis) April 3, 2026
This is simultaneously the funniest and most relatable reel I’ve ever seen in my life pic.twitter.com/rhJ2pjJMje
— MERICA MEMED (@Mericamemed) April 4, 2026
People forget that in the 1990s, Britain was the fourth biggest manufacturing economy in the world.
— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) April 4, 2026
Through the 1990s the number of jobs in manufacturing *increased*.
From 1993 to 1998, British manufacturing employment increased from 4.1 million to 4.3 million. Not unrelatedly,…
A 3,200 year-old painted scene of a lion and a gazelle playing a board game, probably senet.
— Alison Fisk (@AlisonFisk) April 2, 2026
From an ancient Egyptian illustrated papyrus showing animals taking on human roles in comic situations where they act against their natural instincts.
📷 British Museum… pic.twitter.com/3gb8s7CAp6
“The old churches of England are the story of England. They alone remain islands of calm in the seething roar of what we now call civilisation. They are not backwaters… but strongholds.”
— Mark W. (@DurhamWASP) April 4, 2026
Sir John Betjeman pic.twitter.com/soqb9YivJZ
After a journey lasting 9 years, 5 months, and 27 days, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft completed a flyby of Pluto, sending back these remarkable images. pic.twitter.com/1aDRhjrXyY
— aka (@akafaceUS) April 4, 2026
People went to Bluesky for a one-sided safe space but now they’re discovering that the radical version of their own censoriousness is causing it to collapse. https://t.co/pniO5lmdgl
— Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) April 4, 2026